Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett is the Americas editor for Miami NPR affiliate WLRN, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and their key relationship with South Florida.
Padgett has reported on Latin America for more than 30 years - including for Newsweek as its Mexico City bureau chief and for Time as its Latin America and Miami bureau chief - from the end of Central America's civil wars to the current normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations. He has interviewed more than 20 heads of state.
In 2005, Padgett received Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his body of work in Latin America. In 2016 he won a national Edward R. Murrow award for the radio series "The Migration Maze," about the brutal causes of - and potential solutions to - Central American migration.
Padgett is an Indiana native and a graduate of Wabash College. He received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and studied in Caracas, Venezuela, at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Hehas been an adult literacy volunteer and is a member of the Catholic poverty aid organization St. Vincent de Paul.
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COMMENTARY It's astonishing to hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis extol Western Civilization when he so often flouts its ideals of humanism and democratic freedom.
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COMMENTARY What we're hearing from Cuban and Haitian migrants now is what they've been telling us decade after decade. Let's get real about their misery.
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Last week's midterm elections hardened the contrast between GOP-embracing Florida Latinos and Democrat-leaning Latinos elsewhere. Is it permanent?
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Democracy and trade were suddenly the hemisphere's buzzwords, and Miami was positioned to be the nexus. But it had to imagine itself in a dramatically new way.
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Haitian Heritage Month's final Little Haiti events include the internationally acclaimed film "Freda," a hopeful portrait of Haitians dealing with national collapse.
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Colombia extends Latin America's legal abortion wave as Florida and the U.S. move toward restrictionColombia has set a new Latin American standard by legalizing abortion within 24 weeks of pregnancy — Florida's current limit, which may soon be cut to 15.
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Because "gas is like gold" in economically collapsed Haiti today, scores of victims ran toward an upended gasoline truck to get its spilled fuel. Then it exploded.
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Search and rescue efforts continue in Surfside, just north of Miami Beach, after the partial collapse of a 12-story building early Thursday morning.
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On Mardi Gras, 'Kanaval' host Leyla McCalla talks about the rich cultural connection between New Orleans music — meaning, really, American music — and Haiti.
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COMMENTARY President Trump and his Venezuelan exile enablers are doing just what Venezuela's dictator Maduro and his socialist enablers would be doing.